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HUMANISM MATERIALISM DOGMATISM
Life Death and Humanism
1978 �Harvard Commencement Address� - Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-20080)
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If humanists were right in declaring that man is born to be happy, he would not be born to die ...
evidently must be of a more spiritual nature ...
It cannot be the unrestrained enjoyment of ... material goods ...
It has to be the fulfillment of a permanent ...
an experience of moral growth, so that one may leave life a better human being ...
Only voluntary, inspired self-restraint can raise man above the world stream of materialism.
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